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Justin Marozzi - Baghdad, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Baghdad

City of Peace, City of Blood

Av Justin Marozzi

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Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors.Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-05-28
  • Mått: 128 x 196 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 393 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 512
  • Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780141047102
  • Utmärkelser: Winner of Ondaatje Prize 2015
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Justin Marozzi is a historian and journalist who has spent most of his professional life living and working in the Muslim world. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and former Trustee of the Royal Geographical Society, he is a senior advisor to the Middle East Association. His previous books include South from Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara (2001), the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (2004) and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus (2008). His last book, Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood (2014) won the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize and was praised by the judges as 'a truly monumental achievement'.

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